Two-year-old Francisco Sanchez Jr. spends six hours a day mesmerized by a smartphone. He summons his favorite “Ninja Turtles” episodes with the touch of his tiny fingers.
So long, Saturday morning cartoons. Welcome to the post-TV era of children’s...

Ho-ho-hold the line!
Santa is calling.
Dial up some fun this holiday by sending a free, personalized call or email from the jolly big guy himself, compliments of Google's SendaCallFromSanta.com.
Kris Kringle makes the calls to good boys and girls...

Ho-ho-hold the line!
Santa is calling.
Dial up some fun this holiday by sending a free, personalized call or email from the jolly big guy himself, compliments of Google's SendaCallFromSanta.com.
Kris Kringle makes the calls to good boys and girls...

The unassuming building along Stirling Road offers no clue of what's happening within the 50,000-square foot quarters.
There's no sign or banners at the Dania Beach property to tell passersby that Republic Bike is there, creating custom bikes for clients...

Magic Leap, a tech firm in Dania Beach, has completed a $542 million round of financing led by Google, with participation from Qualcomm.
The proceeds, announced Tuesday, will be used to accelerate product development and commercialize what it describes...

WASHINGTON — WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, has begun encrypting all its data by default, a move that privacy advocates say would aid dissidents and human-rights activists seeking to protect their communications from...

Users of Microsoft Office on iPads would be able to create and edit documents for free instead of paying for a subscription, in a bid to capture more mobile users, Microsoft said Thursday.
The move is the latest, and one of the most dramatic, in...

Google said Tuesday that the latest version of its popular Android mobile operating system (5.0, dubbed "Lollipop") will become available next month, including a feature that will automatically encrypt users' data.
The company has allowed users...

Timing is everything.
When Apple Pay made splashy headlines with its debut on Monday, news was breaking on another retail front.
Another cyber security breach was being investigated, this time at Staples.
Already, more than a hundred million...

Make a cute, personalized 3D bracelet compliments of Google's Made With Code project.
You code the bracelet by picking words and a color and it will be made on a 3D printer. It takes a few minutes to figure out how to do it, which is the whole point of...

GO USA!
If you can't get away for the do-or-die USA vs. Belgium match at 3 p.m. today, here's how to watch for free.
ESPN and Univision are live streaming online all 64 FIFA World Cup matches from Brazil beginning Thursday. You also can catch games on...

A South Florida agency is partnering with Google to help local businesses get the most out of their websites, improve their marketing and target the right audience.
The May 1 workshop, organized by Google and MoreVisibility, a Boca Raton interactive...

UPDATED with comment from sheriff
In keeping with my previous commitment, I have another installment in my Roger Stone series, tracking the renowned political operative's influence at the Broward Sheriff's Office.
This time we find that a third person...

A website snafu that resulted in an unknown number of people viewing, and possibly printing out, an incorrect sample ballot for the Aug. 26 primary and nonpartisan elections prompted a candidate for judge to condemn the county elections supervisor and...

Hidden in the dense sawgrass or buried in the deep muck of the Everglades are the mysterious wrecks of numerous aircraft.
Some were drug planes that fled federal agents, others were private aircraft that ran into trouble or vintage warplanes that crashed...

Whether you stay or go, it's smart to back up important files, photos and other information from your computer and other electronic devices.ComputersMICROSOFT allows users to store data in the cloud with OneDrive. Once you create a free account, you can...

When a tropical system appears on the horizon, some of us rush to the computer, call up the models and try to figure out where it might go, how strong it might get.
No matter that those models frequently resemble spaghetti, going in different directions....

He named the salted fish delicacy found only in the Mediterranean: the anchovy. He identified the author of the words "All Gaul is divided into three parts": Julius Caesar. And he named the playwright who created the Norwegian manor Rosmersholm:...